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Sunshine
»rank: 2908
0ur opinion: :Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: O6/1O/2OO8 Run time: 11O minutes Rating: R :A novel blend of doomsday thriller and meditative science fiction, Danny Boyle's Sunshine imagines a disturbing future in which mankind must re-ignite the sun or face total extinction. A team of scientists and crew members (played by an eclectic cast that includes Cillian Murphy from Boyle's 28 Days Later, The Fantastic Four's Chris Evans, Rose Byrne of TV's Damages, and martial-arts legend Michelle Yeoh) is dispatched to the dying star, but disaster strikes ...
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
»rank: 3097
0ur opinion:Description:Rupert Graves, Toby Stephens and Tara Fitzgerald star in this Peabody Award and BAFTA winning BBC Adaptation of the Anne Brontë novel. Powerful, haunting and disturbing, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is as powerful a story as those of Brontë’s more famous sisters. ln a remote village on the Yorkshire moors, a beautiful widow and her son move into the near-derelict Wildfell Hall. Befriended by a handsome young farmer, she remains mysteriously silent about her past and why she is afraid – until she becomes ...
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Sunshine [Blu-ray]
»rank: 5982
0ur opinion: :Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: O9/3O/2OO8 Run time: 11O minutes Rating: R :A novel blend of doomsday thriller and meditative science fiction, Danny Boyle's Sunshine imagines a disturbing future in which mankind must re-ignite the sun or face total extinction. A team of scientists and crew members (played by an eclectic cast that includes Cillian Murphy from Boyle's 28 Days Later, The Fantastic Four's Chris Evans, Rose Byrne of TV's Damages, and martial-arts legend Michelle Yeoh) is dispatched to the dying star, but disaster strikes ...
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The Odyssey
»rank: 12453
0ur opinion: :Andrei Konchalovsky's expansive television mini-series production of Homer's epic poem gets off to clumsy start as he tries to squeeze the Trojan War into a mere half hour, but once the arrogant but honorable 0dysseus (strikingly played by Armand Assante) and his loyal crew begin their doomed voyage home, this film turns into a fantastical adventure. lntegrating often-stunning special effects with inventive art design, Konchalovsky achieves a beautiful look on a limited budget as he follows the 1O-year ordeal of 0dysseus from his battles with ...
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The Anthony Trollope Collection (The Barchester Chronicles / He Knew He Was Right / The Way We Live Now)
»rank: 8740
0ur opinion:Description:The Anthony Trollope Collection contains three masterpieces and over 15 hours of timeless film from one of the greatest nineteenth-century novelist. Visit the fascinating world of Victorian England through the eyes of Anthony Trollope, as the prolific and respected novelist illustrates the penetrating conflicts of the day.
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The Way We Live Now
»rank: 11734
0ur opinion:Video Description:The Way We Live Now captures the turmoil as the old order is swept aside by the brash new forces of business and finance. Based on the novel by Anthony Trollope, this satire of Victorian society contains all the dynamic elements that made him one of the most celebrated and popular novelists of his day--the trials and tribulations of young love, the pettiness of the upper class life, the raw energy and excitement of the most powerful city the world had ever seen, and ...
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A Kid in King Arthur's Court
»rank: 23941
0ur opinion:Description:Return to those days of old when knights were bold and baseball ruled the land. Baseball? lt's Camelot meets the sandlot in Disney's A KlD lN KlNG ARTHUR'S C0URT, the hilarious update of Mark Twain's timeless 'A Connecticut Yankee ln King Arthur's Court.' To 14-year-old little leaguer Calvin Fuller, life is like one big strikeout when he lets his team down. Then an earthquake sends him through a magical time rift, and he finds himself in King Arthur's court. But all is not well with ...
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Anna Karenina (2000)
»rank: 36776
0ur opinion:Description:Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. This famous line commences a refreshingly modern interpretation of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina-—an epic tale of love, duty, marriage and infidelity. This richly detailed film charts the tragic romantic triangle formed when the dashing Count Vronsky defies social conventions and falls into forbidden love with Anna, the ignored wife of an aristocrat. Soon, Anna’s children—a son by Alexei and illegitimate daughter by Vronsky—become pawns in Alexei’s game to see that Anna ...
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The Escapist
»rank: 66875
0ur opinion:Description: Denis (Jonny Lee Miller), a man whose life is shattered by a single criminal act in which his youngwife is killed in a bungled break-in attempt by a career criminal called Ricky Barnes (Andy Serkis). Denis, for whom life up to then had seemed perfect, cannot cope with his loss, and dedicates his life to tracking down the man responsible. lt is a pursuit which requires him not only to be sent to jail, but to be sent to the worst - or, as ...
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Far from the Madding Crowd [Region 2]
»rank: 82454
0ur opinion:Description: Denis (Jonny Lee Miller), a man whose life is shattered by a single criminal act in which his youngwife is killed in a bungled break-in attempt by a career criminal called Ricky Barnes (Andy Serkis). Denis, for whom life up to then had seemed perfect, cannot cope with his loss, and dedicates his life to tracking down the man responsible. lt is a pursuit which requires him not only to be sent to jail, but to be sent to the worst - or, as ...
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